SWA2424 Southwest Airlines
Boeing 737NG 7H4/W · N229WN
· 1:26Quality 89nose/tail
Software-steadied: the hops of the camera motor are smoothed out (plane wobble −70%). Download
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Where the aircraft sat in the frame, second by second. Click the chart to jump the video there.
—FOV —az —el —pose —
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Events
Tracking metrics
How well the camera kept the aircraft centred. Tap a metric for what it means and what good looks like.
- Lockshare of the pass
- 80%
- First lockfrom target selected
- 9.9 s
- Centring, medianaz / el while locked
- 0.24° / 0.19°
- Centring, 90th pctaz / el while locked
- 1.40° / 1.12°
- Tightest field of viewhorizontal
- 4.1°
- Time to 8°from first lock
- 3.8 s
- Time to tightestfrom first lock
- 6.2 s
- Time at telefield of view ≤ 5.5°
- 44.1 s
- Jitter at teleaz / el, standard deviation
- 0.22° / 0.26°
- Swing at teleaz / el, peak to peak
- 1.34° / 1.77°
- Pan reversalsper 10 s at tele
- 1.1
- Largest pan hopin any 1 s at tele
- 3.68°
- Largest tilt hopin any 1 s at tele
- 3.63°
- Pose error, mediancommand vs camera
- 1.11°
- Largest correctionvision vs prediction
- 3.37°
- Zoom steps
- 52
Aircraft & route
- Flight
- SWA2424
- Registration
- N229WN
- Type
- Boeing 737NG 7H4/W
- Airline
- Southwest Airlines
- From
- —
- To
- —
- Ground speed
- 286 kt
- Altitude at closest
- 10,875 ft
- Vertical rate
- +2,496 ft/min
- Category
- A3
- ICAO hex
- a20471
Pass geometry
- Max elevation
- 85.0°
- Elevation at start → end
- 20.8° → 27.9°
- Azimuth at start → end
- 354° N → 179° S
- Closest-approach azimuth
- 265° W
- Minimum slant range
- 3.3 km
- Heading at closest
- 177° S
- Aspect at closest
- nose/tail (22°)
- Turn
- straight (0°)
- Departure
- Yes — climbing out after take-off
- Zenith pass
- No
- Dead-zone wrap
- No
- Duration
- 1:26 (85.6 s)
- Lock
- 80%
Build & tuning
The tracker build that flew this pass and the live settings that mattered, so passes can be compared across changes.
- Build
- 2026-10-16g — A/B lockFirst (mount prior on)
- Commit
- 9bdc356
- Node
- v22.22.2
- Camera
- TONGVEO 20x PTZ · 1920×1080 @ 30 fps
- Clip
- 42.5 MB · 85.0 s · offset -0.9 s
- pursuit
- velocity
- maxLeadSec
- 3
- panLatencySec
- 0.6
- tiltLatencySec
- 0.4
- rippleDeg
- 0.5
- rippleTeleDeg
- 0.25
- maxSpeedStepFwps
- 0.45
- speedReachFrac
- 0.8
- lockedSigmaDeg
- 0.35
- sigmaGrowthDps
- 0.1
- aimLeadSec
- -0.1
- correctionSlewDps
- 2.5
- kp
- 1
- ki
- 0.6
This clip and poster are © Skylight (Cameron Paczek): free for non-commercial use with credit to skylightceiling.com, not MIT. License